Relapse Triggers Stress, Success, and Dopamine Circuits

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[00:00:00]When do people relapse? When they're feeling really good, when they're feeling really lousy and stressed, and when they're feeling really good.

[00:00:06]>> Yeah. They've been sober for 5 years. We hear about this in the news usually from, you know, celebrity examples.

[00:00:10]People have been doing great. All of a sudden, they're back in treatment.

[00:00:13]You're like, "What happened?" What happened was the dopamine circuit from other things, maybe a great life event or things are going well, or stress, the loss of a job, everything crashing, puts our visual system and the rest of our brain into a myopia.